The first interdisciplinary study of America's best-known filmmaker.
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In our nation's great movie lore there is nothing more American than the films of Frank Capra?undoubtedly the Norman Rockwell of American cinema. Carney here, however, asserts that although Capra's films promote traditional American values, there is an underlying "uncertainty about whether an individual can express imaginative dreams within the repressive norms of society" (LJ
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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An extraordinary achievement and undertaking . . . a true fruition and a powerful defense of the auteurist impulse in film studies. -- Film Quarterly
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It is useful and only a slight simplification, to make a fundamental distinction between two alternative traditions of mainstream American feature filmmaking in order to suggest an essential difference between Frank Capra's work, which emanates out of the one, and that of most other major Hollywood directors of the thirties and forties, which emanates out of the other. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
expressive predicament, dreamland sequence, narrative eventfulness, meditative shift, imaginative mobility, layered sound track, housewarming ceremony, charged consciousness, enriched consciousness, films that follow, expressive gap, expressive problems, imaginative openings, imaginative substitutions, imaginative movement, acting strategies, social performer, stylistic world, visionary community, melodramatic expression, preceding film, imaginative relationship, respective films, imaginative performance, late films Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Wonderful Life, Bitter Tea, Platinum Blonde, Ladies of Leisure, State of the Union, John Doe, George Bailey, That Certain Thing, The Miracle Woman, Stew Smith, Henry James, Jefferson Smith, The Way of the Strong, New York, Frank Capra, Tom Dixon, Jerry Strong, Barbara Stanwyck, Longfellow Deeds, William James, Lost Horizon, Deeds Goes, Broadway Bill, Bedford Falls, Florence Fallon New!
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It is useful and only a slight simplification, to make a fundamental distinction between two alternative traditions of mainstream American feature filmmaking in order to suggest an essential difference between Frank Capra's work, which emanates out of the one, and that of most other major Hollywood directors of the thirties and forties, which emanates out of the other. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
expressive predicament, dreamland sequence, narrative eventfulness, meditative shift, imaginative mobility, layered sound track, housewarming ceremony, charged consciousness, enriched consciousness, films that follow, expressive gap, expressive problems, imaginative openings, imaginative substitutions, imaginative movement, acting strategies, social performer, stylistic world, visionary community, melodramatic expression, preceding film, imaginative relationship, respective films, imaginative performance, late films Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Wonderful Life, Bitter Tea, Platinum Blonde, Ladies of Leisure, State of the Union, John Doe, George Bailey, That Certain Thing, The Miracle Woman, Stew Smith, Henry James, Jefferson Smith, The Way of the Strong, New York, Frank Capra, Tom Dixon, Jerry Strong, Barbara Stanwyck, Longfellow Deeds, William James, Lost Horizon, Deeds Goes, Broadway Bill, Bedford Falls, Florence Fallon New!
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- Studies in Classic American Literature (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H. Lawrence) by D. H. Lawrence in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and page 41
- What Maisie Knew (Modern Library Classics) by Henry James on page 143, and page 287
- It's a Wonderful Life by Jimmy Stewart in Front Matter, and page 325
- The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James on page 57, and page 412
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- Blue-Collar Hollywood: Liberalism, Democracy, and Working People in American Film by John Bodnar in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- In Capra's Shadow: The Life and Career of Screenwriter Robert Riskin by Ian Scott in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Class, Language, and American Film Comedy by Christopher Beach in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Frank Capra: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers) by Leland Poague in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Going the Distance: Dissident Subjectivity in Modernist American Literature (Horizons in Theory and American Culture) by David R. Jarraway on page 32, and Back Matter
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